Ian McEwan tells the New Yorker (abstract here) that his next novel is not about climate change - it'll just be the 'background hum'. The novel begins:
'He was running out of time. Everyone was, it was the general condition.'
Ancient Peruvian civilisation grew mighty by harvesting guano
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The Chincha Kingdom was transporting seabird excrement from islands to
valleys as early as the 13th century, and this powerful fertiliser may have
been key...
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